After Anzac

8 May 2013

cartoon Anzac is important in New Zealand life and over the last few years it has grown in intensity. Sometimes that makes it hard to voice different views about it all.

At Vaughan Park we think Anzac matters but we also think that a wide range of views need to be heard about it.

We are offering space to have conversations that might sometimes be uncomfortable as we begin to think about what Anzac represents for the past, the present and on into the future.

Thanks to Brendan Boughen, aka Cartoons by Jim for the use of his 2013 Anzac cartoon.

Anzac and the ghost of Harry Patch

Ian Render 2 May 2013

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Greater love broke the Anzac spell

Nick Frater 2 May 2013

I am a lapsed worshiper at the Anzac altar but I could not help being moved by the dawn parade before the spell was suddenly broken.. more»
Forget what?

John Hebenton 2 May 2013

It is when I hear people talk about how these soldiers fought for our freedom that I struggle. WW1 was not a conflict about freedom. It was a war that should never have happened. It was simply about empires and politics. more»
Anzac a sacrificial belief system

The Rev. Sande Ramage 2 May 2013

Anzac Day troubles me because when all the processions, words and rituals are done, I don't know what it means. That's frightening given that it seems to demand an almost unquestioning reverence. more»
Anzac myth

The Rev. John Fairbrother 25 April 2013

Why might ANZAC day be rising in public consciousness as the national day of self-recognition? Answers may be revealing of a distinction between living memory and the power of myth. more»